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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: PATCH: DCOPServer hanging on non responding client.
From:       joerg habenicht <j.habenicht () stud ! uni-hannover ! de>
Date:       2001-01-26 8:04:29
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> For the short term, this solution will prevent the dcopserver hanging on 
> non-responding clients, but I'm not happy with it for the long term, because 
> it makes it impossible to send data larger than 64Kb. And I don't want to go 
> down in history as the one who said 64Kb ought to be enough for everyone :-)
> 
> A possible long term solution would be to implement queuing in DCOP and to 
> send large messages in parts. I have no idea how we can detect that we will 
> be able to write a message of a certain size though. (E.g. select tells us 
> that we can write, but I don't think it specifies in any way how much we will 
> be able to write.)

Well, this leads to some sort of transport protocol,
streaming the data in 64k chunks.
Shouldn't be that hard.

Could someone point me to the source code ?
> 
> We might be able to implement our own IceWrite function though, it seems to 
> simply write out the data to the socket with this rather wierd 
> _IceTransWrite() function (Which is some obscure define (?))
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo



cu,
Joerg

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